1. You may identify the stasis in the play but it isn’t necessarily at the beginning of the play. Where is it and who does it involve? NOTE: Do not assume that the stasis of the play is the same as the stasis of the video version that you are required to see. Only discuss the play in this and answers to the following questions.
The stasis revolves around members of Jewish and Black communities and their thoughts and experiences on the Crown Height Riots of 1991. The play is a series of monologues from people within these communities. The setting for the accounts recalled in the play would be in August of 1991, after the death of Gavin Cato.
2. Ball points out that the intrusion sometimes occurs late in the dramatic action. What is the intrusion that breaks the stasis in Fires in the MIrror and how is it broken?
The intrusion of the stasis is in the fourth act. It occurs after Rabbi Spielman gives his statement on Gavin Cato and the Black Community lying about the true events. He also claims the group is anti-semitic, and this puts into motion the events and riots the play is centered around.
3. Why do the events of the play take place at this particular time and place? In other words, what is the unique factor that is out of the ordinary that causes a turn of events to take place? Hint: the unique factor may have something to do with you? How does the title figure in your answer?
This is the day that a killing of a black boy by a Jewish driver sparked racial riots.
4. State the dramatic questions that must be answered by the end of the play? (Ordinarily, the dramatic question shares a close connection with the intrusion.)
How or will the tensions between the communities get resolved? Is one group right or are there understandings with both sides?
5. Use the narrator of the work to answer the questions concerning character. Ball says, a character is revealed by what he/she does, ie. The dramatic actions that are taken. Examine what these particular characters wants. The wants of a character often encounter obstacles that get in the way of achieving those wants. Ball says there are 4 kinds of obstacles that frustrate the wants of a character. They are: a. Me against myself, b. Me against another individual, c. Me against society (that is law, social norms, etc.) and, d. Me against fate, the universe, natural forces, God or the gods. In answering these questions be sure to point to the particular obstacles that demonstrate these obstacles facing the narrator.
The black community wants justice for the boy they believed was wrongly killed, and their obstacle against this is the jewish community and a justice system that has ultimately failed their people time and time again. This is a Me vs. Society issue. If you take is as a group vs. group conflict this could be a me (the group) vs. another (group).
The Jewish community thought the crash was an accident and not a deliberate race action, and they want the other side to come to terms with this. They become angry at how out of hand the situation gets. This is a me vs another.
6. The most important information in most plays takes place during theatrical moments. Identify the most theatrical moments in Fires in the Mirror.
Each interview was very dramatic, but some do stand out.
The account of the car accident at the end is dramatic if not just for the reason that it is an account of first hand about the events that caused this ruckus.
The beginning is quite powerful to e because it shows individuals dividing themselves predispositionedly in according with others.
The story of Letty and her family member surviving the Holocaust by participating in the Nazi gassing is also very dramatic as we can feel all the grief that Letty did.
The stasis revolves around members of Jewish and Black communities and their thoughts and experiences on the Crown Height Riots of 1991. The play is a series of monologues from people within these communities. The setting for the accounts recalled in the play would be in August of 1991, after the death of Gavin Cato.
2. Ball points out that the intrusion sometimes occurs late in the dramatic action. What is the intrusion that breaks the stasis in Fires in the MIrror and how is it broken?
The intrusion of the stasis is in the fourth act. It occurs after Rabbi Spielman gives his statement on Gavin Cato and the Black Community lying about the true events. He also claims the group is anti-semitic, and this puts into motion the events and riots the play is centered around.
3. Why do the events of the play take place at this particular time and place? In other words, what is the unique factor that is out of the ordinary that causes a turn of events to take place? Hint: the unique factor may have something to do with you? How does the title figure in your answer?
This is the day that a killing of a black boy by a Jewish driver sparked racial riots.
4. State the dramatic questions that must be answered by the end of the play? (Ordinarily, the dramatic question shares a close connection with the intrusion.)
How or will the tensions between the communities get resolved?
Is one group right or are there understandings with both sides?
5. Use the narrator of the work to answer the questions concerning character. Ball says, a character is revealed by what he/she does, ie. The dramatic actions that are taken. Examine what these particular characters wants. The wants of a character often encounter obstacles that get in the way of achieving those wants. Ball says there are 4 kinds of obstacles that frustrate the wants of a character. They are: a. Me against myself, b. Me against another individual, c. Me against society (that is law, social norms, etc.) and, d. Me against fate, the universe, natural forces, God or the gods. In answering these questions be sure to point to the particular obstacles that demonstrate these obstacles facing the narrator.
The black community wants justice for the boy they believed was wrongly killed, and their obstacle against this is the jewish community and a justice system that has ultimately failed their people time and time again. This is a Me vs. Society issue. If you take is as a group vs. group conflict this could be a me (the group) vs. another (group).
The Jewish community thought the crash was an accident and not a deliberate race action, and they want the other side to come to terms with this. They become angry at how out of hand the situation gets. This is a me vs another.
6. The most important information in most plays takes place during theatrical moments. Identify the most theatrical moments in Fires in the Mirror.
Each interview was very dramatic, but some do stand out.
The account of the car accident at the end is dramatic if not just for the reason that it is an account of first hand about the events that caused this ruckus.
The beginning is quite powerful to e because it shows individuals dividing themselves predispositionedly in according with others.
The story of Letty and her family member surviving the Holocaust by participating in the Nazi gassing is also very dramatic as we can feel all the grief that Letty did.